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Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall, 2023 Unframed Print
$1,000.00
Member Price$900.00
As one of America’s leading visual artists, Dr. Judy Baca has created public art for four decades. In 1974, Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program, which produced over 400 murals, employed thousands of local participants, and evolved into an arts organization- the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). She continues to serve as SPARC’s artistic director while promoting social justice and participatory public art projects.
Her most well-known work is The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Located in the San Fernando Valley, the mural spans half a mile and is still a work in progress that is engaging another generation of youth. The mural making process has exemplified community involvement, employing more than 400 youth and their families from diverse social and economic backgrounds, artists, oral historians, and scholars. In 2017, The Great Wall of Los Angeles received national recognition on the National Registry of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Baca is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for the expansion of The Great Wall. Most recently, she was honored with the 2021 National Medal of Arts. Baca makes art shaped by an interactive relationship of history, people, and place. Her public artworks focus on revealing and reconciling peoples’ struggles for their rights and affirming the community’s connections to place. Together, she co-creates “sites of public memory.”
This limited edition print was published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the 2023 Art+Film Gala.
Judy Baca
Hitting the Wall, 2023
- Archival pigment print
- 16” x 24” inches (image size), 22.5” x 30” inches (sheet size)
- Signed and numbered edition of 50
- Printed by The Lapis Press and published by LACMA for the 2023 Art + Film Gala